Monthly Archives: February 2014

Macrame curtains with fabric strips

Macrame curtains with fabric strips

With T-shirt yarn you can make different types of curtains, because you can use any scheme with macrame knots to make a curtain with fabric strips. In this way you can make curtains to decorate windows, doors or separate the rooms in the house.

To make a T-shirt yarn curtain is very simple. Start cutting the strips and knot them in a pole, then, you continue making macrame knots to give form to the curtain. Continue reading

How to make T-shirt yarn bags (measures, techniques and ideas)

How to make T-shirt yarn bags (measures, techniques and ideas)

To make a T-shirt yarn bag you will need a 1 Kg fabric roll, with which you can weave a bag of a 50×50 cm size. Depending on the kind of roll you can cut the fabric strips in half, because there are rolls from 0,5 to 4 cm width; so, with a fabric roll you can make a bag, and if it is a little one, sure enough you will have fabric remnants to make jewelry or other projects with recycled fabric. Continue reading

Homemade cardboard loom for T-shirt yarn

Homemade cardboard loom for T-shirt yarn

Using cardboard you can make a loom to work with T-shirt yarn. With this loom you can make several crafts, like the coasters in the cover image, tablecloths and other objects, depending of the loom size.

This is an easy project with a great result that allows you to recycle cardboard and use it to work with recycled fabric. Continue reading